Beaming mechanism.



PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

H. VAN WINKLE.

BEAMING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27,1903.

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PATENTBD APR. 26, 1904. H. VAN WYINKLEL.

BEAMING MECHANISM.

APPILIOATION FILED JULY 27. 1903. N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

BEAIVIING' MECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,489, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed July 27, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY VAN WINKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful 4 Improvements in Beaming Mechanisms; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to beaming-machines; and it has reference particularly to beamingmachines in which the beam is given a lateral traverse as the threads are wound on the beam. The purpose of imparting the lateral traverse to the beam is usually to compensate for a traverse in the opposite direction imparted either to the reel or the reed of the warpingmachine, so as to lay the threads on the reel after the form of a spiral; but it will be understood that my present invention while particularly adapted to be used in connection with means for imparting a lateral movement to the warp during such treatment thereof as comes previous to winding it on the beam is not necessarily so limited.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where simply for the purpose of illustration it has been shown in connection with a warping and beaming machine of, say, the type shown'in my United States Letters Patent No. 7 26,007. I

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of that portion of a warping and beaming machine which comprises the beaming mechanism, the reel, and driving means. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in plan and partly in section, of a portion of what is shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of the principal elements of the mechanism for effecting the traverse of the beam; and Figs. 5, 6, and

7 are detail views illustrating the manner of mounting a certa1n arm 12 on a shaft u,where Serial No. 167,221. (No model.)

by the shaft may rotate in the arm, but be adapted to transmit lateral movement thereto.

a designates the frame of the machine, in which is journaled in the usual manner the reel 6, whose band 0 is adapted to be impinged against by a roller d, fast with pulleys e and arranged to rotate in a pivoted bracket f.

g is the element for raising and lowering roller all into actuating contact with band 0, the same engaging a hub hof roller 0?.

In a stand at one end of frame a is journaled the drive-shaft j, carrying fast and loose belt-pulleys k at its outer end and a pinion Z at its inner end. Said shaft also carries pulleys 172, over one of which and one of pulleys 6 extends a belt 12, whereby power is transmitted from shaft 1' to roller d to drive the reel while the warping end of the machine is operating. Pinion Z is splined to shaft and may be shifted laterally by a shifting-fork 0, having a pin or bolt 0 arranged to slide lengthwise in stand '1, and having its forked end received by an annularly-grooved part 9 of the pinion. Thus the pinion may be shifted out of or into mesh, according to whether or not, respectively, the warping end of the machine is operating with. a gear r, having a bearing-sleeve s, journaled in stand 71 above shaft said sleeve having its free end provided with a fixed collar 23 for retaining it in its bearing in the stand. In sleeve .9 is splined a shaft a, carrying a face-plate c at its inner end and forming therewith the mandrel, to which by the chain-clutch w or other suitable expedient the beam 00 may be secured so as to rotate therewith.

y is a stand which may be adjusted to any position laterally of the machine and there secured by a screw 2, having a hand-wheel 1 and acting to bind said stand to the crossbeam 2 of the frame a, said screw penetrating a longitudinal slot 3 in the cross-beam. Stand y is formed with a cylindrical socket 4,

in which is the mandrel 5, which receives the trunnion at the end of the beam remote from face-plate v. Said mandrel is free to move longitudinally in the socket, such movement being, howevencontrolled by manipulating and 16 bolted together.

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a hand-wheel 6, taking against the end of the socket 4 and mounted on and having engagement with the threading 7 of a follower 8, which is arranged to slide in the socket, but is normally pressed toward the mandrel 5 by a spiral spring 9, coiled about the follower and interposed between the head 10 at the inner end of the latter and the end wall 11 of the socket.

So long as hand-wheel 6 does not impinge against the end of the socket 1 it will be seen that spring 9 will cause the follower to crowd mandrel 5 and the beam and the other mandrel toward the pulleys Zr. By manipulating hand-wheel 6 so as to cause the follower to be moved away from the mandrel 5 the latter may be rendered free to be moved, so that the beam can be unshipped.

On shaft 10 is an arm 12., which carries a screw 13, arranged parallel with said shaft and extending into the smooth bore of a sleeve 1 1, which is journaled in a bracket carried by the stand and comprising members 15 One end of sleeve 14 is formed with an integral sprocket-wheel 17, while to its other end is keyed a disk 18, which, with another disk, 19, secured thereto, as by screws 20, is formed with adiametrical guideway 21, in which slides a half-nut 22, engageable with the thread of screw 13. In a stud 23, projecting from the disks 18 and 19, is arranged a milled screw 2&, whose threading engages nut 22 in such manner that by turning the milled screw one way or the other the nut will be brought into or out of engagement with the screw 13. The means for so arranging arm 12 on the shaft u that the latter may rotate therein and yet move the arm laterally as said shaft itself moves longitudinally consists of a gib a, set in the groove Z) of the shaft u, and a collar 0, having a setscrew d for securing the collar and gib in fixed relation to the shaft. The portion of arm 12 which is penetrated by the shaft abuts against the collar and is held there by one of the heads a of the gib.

The sleeve is rotated from a chain 25, extending over sprocket 17 and over another sprocket, 26, which, with a gear 27, is carried on a shaft 28, journaled in a stand 29 on the Gear 27 is adapted to be driven from a pinion 30, which is splined on a shaft 31, carrying a sprocket-wheel 32, which may be driven from another sprocket-wheel 33 on the reel 6 through a chain 34:. Pinion 30 is shifted into engagement with or disengagement from gear 27 by a shifting-fork 35, engaging an annularly-grooved portion 36 of the pinion and carried by a stud 37, arranged to move in a bracket 38, forming a part of the stand 39, in which shaft 31 is journaled.

The operation is as follows: During the 0peration .of the warping end of the machine pinion Z may be shifted, as already stated, so that the power taken in through shaft and the train of mechanism connecting it with the band 0 of the reel when roller (Z engages said band will not effect the rotation of the beam, and pinion 30 may be shifted, so as to effect a break in the train of mechanism connecting the reel with the beam traversing means. When the beaming end of the machine is operating-pinions l and 30 remain engaged with their respective gears r and 27 roller (Z being disengaged from band 0 of the reel. The beam being placed in position by first forcing back the follower sufliciently so that it can be admitted between the two mandrels and then manipulating the hand-wheel to release the follower and give full play to the spring 9 to force mandrel 5 toward the beam, the beaming mechanism may be started. Pinion lwill then drive gear 7 and through it and shaft 10 and face-plate c the beam. The pull of the beam on the warp will rotate the reel 6, and this in turn will act through parts 33, 34, 32, 31, 30, 27, 28, 26, 25, 17, 14, 18, and 19 to turn nut 22, which being previously made to engage the threading of screw 13 will cause said screw to advance longitudinally in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3. Screw 13 and shaft a being fast, said shaft will move in the same direction, thus permitting the spring 9 to effect a gradual movement laterally of the beam.

It will be seen that by releasing the nut 22 from the screw 13 (assuming either that the beam is removed or spring 9 caused to be drawn back by the follower, so as not to exert a pressure on the mandrel 5) all the traversable parts can be bodily shifted to any desired position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 1. In a beaming-machine, the combination, with the beam and a suitable support, of a beam-holding means journaled in said support and movable therein longitudinally of the beam, a screw, a nut-carrying device having its nut engaging the screw, said device being arranged in a portion of the support and fixed therein against movement longitudinally of the screw, and an arm having a bearing on a part of the beam-holding means and sustaining the screw, said nut-carrying device and the screw being adapted to effect the traverse of said beam holding means and one of them being for this purpose rotary, substantially as described.

2. In a beaming-machine, the combination of a beam-holding means, the same being movable longitudinally of the beam, a nonrotary screw movable therewith, a nut engageable With the screw, a rotary device arranged concentrically of the screw and carrying the nut, means for limiting said device against movement longitudinally of the screw, and means for adjusting said nut in said device to and from the screw, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of July, 1903.

HENRY VAN WINKLE. Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ROBERT J. PoLLITT. 

